
Episode 66: An Overview of Language Part 1
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Importance of Subject and Object in English
Linguists have argued that this is a oversimplification of the parts of speech by presenting them in just these eight different categories. There are actually many more of them adverb they say is a pretty lousy class because it's just a sort of a grab bag for everything else that doesn't fit anywhere else. Some languages don't really have prepositions in the same way that we do have in English there are lots of debates about these sorts of things I'm not as interested in those for our purpose to see. So what we do is we break it up into parts and look at well what's the subject and what's the object and where's the verb, then within thesubject
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